Project description:Human aging is associated with skeletal muscle atrophy and functional impairment (sarcopenia). Multiple lines of evidence suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributor to sarcopenia. We evaluated whether healthy aging was associated with a transcriptional profile reflecting mitochondrial impairment and whether resistance exercise could reverse this signature to that approximating a younger physiological age. Skeletal muscle biopsies from healthy older (N = 25) and younger (N = 26) adult men and women were compared using gene expression profiling, and a subset of these were related to measurements of muscle strength. 14 of the older adults had muscle samples taken before and after a six-month resistance exercise-training program. Before exercise training, older adults were 59% weaker than younger, but after six months of training in older adults, strength improved significantly (P<0.001) such that they were only 38% lower than young adults. As a consequence of age, we found 596 genes differentially expressed using a false discovery rate cut-off of 5%. Prior to the exercise training, the transcriptome profile showed a dramatic enrichment of genes associated with mitochondrial function with age. However, following exercise training the transcriptional signature of aging was markedly reversed back to that of younger levels for most genes that were affected by both age and exercise. We conclude that healthy older adults show evidence of mitochondrial impairment and muscle weakness, but that this can be partially reversed at the phenotypic level, and substantially reversed at the transcriptome level, following six months of resistance exercise training. Keywords: resistance exercise, muscle, aging
Project description:The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of training on the global transcriptional response of skeletal muscle to an acute bout of resistance exercise. Seven young healthy men and women underwent a 12-week supervised progressive unilateral arm resistance exercise (RE) training program. One week after the last session of training, subjects performed an acute bout of bilateral arm RE in which the trained and the untrained arm exercised at the same relative intensity. A muscle biopsy was obtained 4h post exercise from the biceps brachii of the trained and untrained arm. Trained and untrained muscle samples were analyzed for mRNA levels of over 20,000 annotated genes using Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 microarrays.
Project description:Background: Exercise has a positive effect on overall health. This study was performed to get an overview of the effects of mixed exercise training on skeletal muscl 18 middle-aged men performed 12 weeks of exercise training (2x endurance training and 1x resistance training), muscle biopsies were taken at baseline and 3 days after the last training session
Project description:The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of training on the global transcriptional response of skeletal muscle to an acute bout of resistance exercise.
Project description:Analysis of skeletal muscle miRNA expression from type 2 diabetic volunteers before and after 16 weeks of chronic exercise training (two groups, one undergoing aerobic ecercise and the other resistance training exercise)
Project description:Analysis of skeletal muscle DNA methylation from type 2 diabetic volunteers before and after 16 weeks of chronic exercise training (two groups, one undergoing aerobic excercise and the other resistance training exercise)
Project description:Analysis of skeletal muscle gene expression from type 2 diabetic volunteers before and after 16 weeks of chronic exercise training (two groups, one undergoing aerobic ecercise and the other resistance training exercise)
